EUCIC Observership

Athens, Greece

Athanasios Tsakris <atsakris(at)gmail.com>

To appreciate the goals and principles of surveillance and feedback in preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), antimicrobial use, antimicrobial resistance and outbreaks in hospital settings. To be introduced to basic methods of data analysis, use of data management resources and fundamental principles of reporting and communicating surveillance data. To appreciate the aims, objectives and methodology of Point Prevalence Surveys (PPS). To identify effective ways of comparing surveillance data across institutions/settings and disseminating results to healthcare professionals and policy makers at local, national and European levels. To enable planning, implementation and conduct of a standardised PPS in its own hospital setting.

Ankara, Turkey

Murat Akova <makova(at)hacettepe.edu.tr>

Patient and laboratory based surveillance.

Sterilization-disinfection / Waste management.

Antimicrobial stewardship.

Clinical rounds daily and big round per week with Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention-Control (IPC) teams.

Barcelona,Spain

Juan Pablo Horcajada <JHorcajada(at)parcdesalutmar.cat>

Infection control driven by a multidisciplinary team including physicians, microbiologists, nurses and environmental technicians.

Clinical management of Healthcare Associated Infections, including osteoarticular and multidrug-resistant infections.

Antimicrobial stewardship program driven by a multidisciplinary team including physicians, microbiologists, and pharmacists.

PK/PD principles applied to complex and multidrug resistant infections in the real world.

Research in Healthcare associated infections, including multidrug-resistant infections.

Bucharest, Romania

Oana Sandulescu <oana.sandulescu(at)umfcd.ro>

Screening for multidrug-resistant germs - evidence, policies and practice.

MRSA as etiological agent of fulminant vs. chronic biofilm-driven infections - when and how to look at virulence and aggressiveness traits.

When and how to use biofilm-active regimens in clinical practice.

Bucharest, Romania

Dragos Florea <dflorea2002(at)yahoo.com>

Towards an optimal infection prevention and control (IPC) data communication between the clinic and the lab – when, how and which data to collect.

Utility assessment and technical performance of different protocols for carbapenemases detection.

C. difficile infection – choosing and applying diagnostic protocols.

Cluj Napoca, Romania

Mihaela lupse <mihaela.lupse(at)yahoo.com>

Antimicrobial resistance.

Clostridium difficile diarrhea.

Infections in immunocompromised hosts.

Infections in ICU.